2008

SP9213 : Marsworth Top Lock

taken 16 years ago, near to Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, England

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Marsworth Top Lock
Marsworth Top Lock
The lock seen here is Marsworth Top Lock, which give access when travelling in this direction (eastwards) to the Tring Summit Level, the highest stretch of canal on the Grand Union Canal. Water fed into the summit level supplies the rest of the canal in both directions. The water is supplied by four reservoirs, SP9213 : Startopsend Reservoir, SP9213 : Marsworth Reservoir, SP9113 : Tringford Reservoir & SP9013 : Wilstone Reservoir (see also SP9013 : The heron waits at Wilstone).
The building immediately behind the lock is a dry dock for work on canal craft, entrance to this dry dock is also by means of a lock, which once shut a sluice at this western end can be opened to drain the dock.

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Category: Lock
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Marsworth Reservoir [67] · Marsworth Top Lock [21] · Dry Dock [17] · Supply Water [9] Other Photos: · You are cleared to land ... Title Clusters: · Marsworth Top Lock [5] ·
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SP9213, 321 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Rob Farrow   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 17 February, 2008   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 20 February, 2008
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 9287 1388 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:48.9506N 0:39.2485W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 9282 1389
View Direction
East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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